Changing from author first, last to last, first

[psychotic_chimp]

uhmmm...calibre great program little slo on my mac but at least it works...wi kindle files will DRM hinder translation to text files? if so how can u work around it? hear there is free software available to strip the DRM? also th unique number asssociated wi each kindle how do find out wot it is? kno amazon dont like peeble knoin how to do this heh heh oh well.....any helop appreciated......

[GoingDown]

OK, Thanks again.

I will let it run overnight then.

[Manichean]

Originally Posted by psychotic_chimp

uhmmm...calibre great program little slo on my mac but at least it works...wi kindle files will DRM hinder translation to text files? if so how can u work around it? hear there is free software available to strip the DRM? also th unique number asssociated wi each kindle how do find out wot it is? kno amazon dont like peeble knoin how to do this heh heh oh well.....any helop appreciated......

Uhm, there's this thing called "orthography". It's not just taught to annoy you kids, you know...

Yes, DRM files cannot be converted or edited in any way by Calibre. There are ways around it, but forum rules prohibit to discuss it. By searching the forum, though, you should be able to pick up enough hints to know what to search the web for.

[chaley]

I finished the analysis required to determine why using the 'recompute' button on manage authors was (or could be) very slow.

On my 5,000 book test library, I changed the tweak and went through the manage authors process. After 30 minutes I gave up, but now with information about what was slow. The answers were transaction handling (I expected that) and screen refresh (I didn't expect that). The continuous screen refresh alone took 11 minutes.

After changing the code to do better things with both, the operation on my 5,000 book library now completes in 4 seconds.

It wouldn't surprise me if the refresh change doesn't improve some other things, although at this point I can't predict which.

This improvement should be in the next release, as long as Kovid-review-cycles are available.

[lvovsky]

Originally Posted by GoingDown

When I did the manage_authors - recalculate thing, my Calibre hung up (using 100% cpu). After ~40 minutes, I killed it and started it again, and authors are sorted now differently. So it did seem to work anyway.

same happened to me. Calibre .7.32.; win XP;
i didn't care for and wasn't confident in results so I restored .db from back up to be safe

calibre was "not responding" during recalculation operation. it would be nice to have a progress indicator for impatient kind...

[lvovsky]

Originally Posted by chaley

...
After changing the code to do better things with both, the operation on my 5,000 book library now completes in 4 seconds.

It wouldn't surprise me if the refresh change doesn't improve some other things, although at this point I can't predict which.

This improvement should be in the next release, as long as Kovid-review-cycles are available.

awesome! can't wait to try it!

[GoingDown]

Originally Posted by chaley

After changing the code to do better things with both, the operation on my 5,000 book library now completes in 4 seconds.

Wow! That was superfast! You are awesome Chaley.

[ViktorShchedrin]

Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald

Ouch. I only have 465 existing authors. There has to be an easier way.

THANK you very much to start this thread and THANKs to all replied.

Unfortunately i do not understand everything and i have 3165 existing authors, can i change from FN LN to LN,FN automatically ?

my tweak author_sort_copy_method = 'copy'

and manage_authors switch on manage_by_author_sort

manage_author panel i see some authors as FN LN some - which i changed manually - LN FN

so, can i change all existing authors to LN FN automatically ?

[GoingDown]

Originally Posted by ViktorShchedrin

so, can i change all existing authors to LN FN automatically ?

Reply #16 in this same thread will help you with that... I used it and it worked perfectly.

[ViktorShchedrin]

Originally Posted by GoingDown

Reply #16 in this same thread will help you with that... I used it and it worked perfectly.

thanks fast reply, i read #16, but something wrong - my mind or my tweaks or it is not work - author_sort and authors - and the Test fields and result the same

Douglas Adams and Douglas Adams

Calibre 0.7.42

Where i do mistake ?

[ViktorShchedrin]

Originally Posted by GoingDown

Reply #16 in this same thread will help you with that... I used it and it worked perfectly.

thanks for answering and making me try and think

my problem is that i imported books with tweak
author_sort_copy_method = 'copy'
and i have both
authors and author_sort the same as FN LN

i changed author_sort_copy_method = 'invert' before import the books - test for Agatha Christie - and now i have authors="Agatha Christie" and author_sort="Agatha Christie" too and i can use bulk metada edit method as described this thread #16

so, my question now is - can i change automatically author_sort VALUEs - existing authors - from "FN LN" to "LN,FN" without to import books again ?

[kovidgoyal]

Right click on an author in the tag browser, select manage authors and click recalcualte author sort

[ViktorShchedrin]

Kovid, Thanks for the Calibre program, RegEx is the solution I happy now
i use this advice https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...36&postcount=2 and about 10 authors should edit manually. 3200
authors about 8200 titles was changed about 30 mins.

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Right click on an author in the tag browser, select manage authors and click recalcualte author sort

How can you tell that it is doing anything? I recently (yesterday) tried this and there was no feedback that pressing the recalcualte author sort button did anything.

[kovidgoyal]

If you have any authors that are wrong, it will correct them, if they're all right, it will do nothing.